Thursday, September 24, 2015

A few years ago I started organizing my music into seasons and started with Fall because it came really easy to me to capture the mood and atmosphere of the season in music. And although this year saying goodbye to Summer is a little harder than usual Fall is here and I think I'm falling in love with it all over again. The clouds and the golden light, the way the trees turn into color, the burning of candles and the smell of warm plum crisp and hot tea. I put together a Soundtrack that is truly a Soundrack to accompany you on a walk through the forest or snuggled up on your sofa. It can also serve as background music for your next dinner gathering with friends. It has some soft piano pop, some funky tunes, some mellow Indie and some folk.
Listen and follow here or directly on spotify and create your own memories with it.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Films in which the Indian culture collides with our western culture are always a pleasure to watch and a good study of culture and society. In fact during my semester abroad in Santa Barbara I wrote a paper about it and compared different movies like Monsoon Wedding and Bend it like Beckham with each other explaning diasporas. So wathcing The Hundred Foot Journey yesterday was not only pleasure and entertainment but a reminder of cultures within cultures.

The movie was directed by Lasse Hallström and you can sense it because there is always a certain feeling to his movies and he has a way of using light. The movie was enjoyable, entertaining, captivating and I loved the feeling it kept for the senses when it comes to food. Cooking and preparing food was portrayed culturely but also as something magical, something that evokes the senses and takes you to other places. Food is memory.

Monday, September 14, 2015

I am very picky when it comes to romantic drama or romantic comedy and this may come as a shock for you but I cannot watch romantic movies too often because they tend to mess with you and build up false expectation and I have chosen to not allow that. But ever so often a beautiful romance movie comes my way and I just know it is a keeper. The Age of Adaline is a beautiful piece of a movie. It has this peace and calm about it which I really loved. It is very well done in how it captures different times. The wardrobe in the movie is exceptional and the acting beautiful. This movie just leaves you in your seat for a couple of moments to gasp for air because you were so captured by it. It just has this stunning ambiance about it I cannot quite describe it but I suggest you go and watch it and get your own picture of it.

Monday, September 7, 2015

There are movies and then there are movies - the one's which only come along ever so often and last week was one of those times when you sit in the theater and it is late but you just don't want the movie to stop because it is so good.

Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E has that very rare combination of being very well done and developed, having a great story and being authentic, having great cinematography, the perfect amount of suspense combined with a good balance of humor, satire and seriousness. Add to that the brilliant acting and chemistry between the cast. So although we all probably have to wait until December to watch it again I suggest you put it on your movies to watch list because you won't regret it.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Lately spotify has been suggesting quite a lot of duets to me, I am starting to wonder if it is a sign... so I have decided to dedicate this week to some beautiful duets. Some I have just recently discovered and some are all time favorites. Some are fun and some are really romantic although we can probably guess what side we're leaning on here.
Anyways, if you're not yet following The Soundtrack of my Life on spotify I suggest you hop over there, subscribe and get new music regularly.
Have fun this week.